Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz appears on Comedy Central TV show

If you're a baseball fan, you probably remember Steve Monforto and his 3-year-old daughter, Emily, who became Internet sensations last fall after Steve caught his first foul ball ever at a Phillies game, only to watch Emily throw it back after it was handed to her.

The play went a little bit like this:

Why does that come up now here? Well, Comedy Central sat down with the Monfortos last night for a follow-up interview on the Tosh.0 show. And as I first saw on Sox & Dawgs, they use Clay Buchholz as a straight man:

Not particularly funny, but at least we got our daily allowance of tea parties, right?

Peter Abraham blogged today that Buchholz got to know the show's host, Daniel Tosh, through his wife, Lindsay Clubine. More importantly, Abraham says that Buchholz will be in an upcoming ESPN Sportscenter commercial coming out on or near opening day, which would put him with David Ortiz on a short list of Red Sox players who have appeared in the famous TV spots.